The Social Media Presence of Professional Sports Team Physicians Is High Among Major League Soccer, Major League Lacrosse, Major League Rugby, Winter Olympics, and Women’s National Basketball Association, But Highest Among MLS Team Physicians

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To quantify the social media utilization of professional sports team physicians on popular platforms and analyze differences between physician users and physician non-users for smaller major professional sports: Major League Soccer (MLS), Major League Lacrosse (MLL), Major League Rugby (MLR), Winter Olympics (WO) and Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA).

Methods

Physicians for the MLS, MLL, MLR, WO, and WNBA were identified and characterized based on training background, practice setting, years of experience, and geographic location. Social media presence on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and ResearchGate were determined. Differences between social media users and non-users were analyzed via chi-squared tests for nonparametric variables. Seconda

SUBMITTER: Hasan S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9971862 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature